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into the drink

Idioms  
  1. Into the water, especially the ocean. For example, One more wave and I thought I'd fall off the boat into the drink. [Slang; c. 1830]


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He and business partner Bardy Bayram briefly tossed up working noodles and coconut milk into the drink somehow, but decided floaties and a creamy flavour would probably be a bridge too far.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2023

“It's not a common move,” he says, because it can send bits of herbs or fruit into the drink, causing it to look “frothy, cloudier and chaotic in the glass.”

From Scientific American • Jun. 17, 2023

You can drop the caperberry garnish into the drink to make it a little saltier as you sip, and finish it off at the end.

From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2023

It wasn't until Prohibition that fruit crept into the drink.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2022

Cleopatra dropped the earring into the drink and swirled it until the pearl dissolved.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby

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